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portada Social Security and the American Social Contract. History, Finance, Politics, and the Future of Intergenerational Insurance
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
188
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1 cm
ISBN13
9798252989938

Social Security and the American Social Contract. History, Finance, Politics, and the Future of Intergenerational Insurance

Daniel Schwartz (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

Social Security and the American Social Contract. History, Finance, Politics, and the Future of Intergenerational Insurance - Daniel Schwartz

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Synopsis "Social Security and the American Social Contract. History, Finance, Politics, and the Future of Intergenerational Insurance"

Social Security and the American Social Contract traces one of American democracy's greatest unresolved challenges: a predictable demographic collision between a Depression-era pay-as-you-go insurance system and a rapidly aging population. Drawing on actuarial data, legislative history, comparative pension research, and political economy, the book argues that Social Security's looming insolvency-the combined trust funds are projected to be exhausted by 2034, triggering automatic benefit cuts of 20 percent-is not a crisis of design or mismanagement but a foreseeable consequence of three compounding forces: the retirement of 76 million Baby Boomers, fertility rates that have fallen well below replacement level, and life expectancies that have extended retirement by nearly six years since the program's founding. The book examines every credible reform pathway-revenue increases, benefit adjustments, and hybrid combinations-with granular distributional analysis showing who bears the cost under each scenario, then situates the American impasse against the successful pension reforms of Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, democracies that faced identical pressures and acted. The central finding is both sobering and clarifying: the technical solutions are known, the actuarial math is settled, and the political will is the only missing ingredient. Whether Congress chooses deliberate, gradual reform or allows the clock to run out on 67 million beneficiaries is not a question of economics-it is a test of whether American democracy retains the capacity for intergenerational governance.

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